Home personal security system

ABSTRACT

A home personal security system includes a bed and an anchoring assembly by means of which the bed is anchored to a floor. A human containment chamber is provided in the lower portion of the bed. The human containment chamber has a door with a lock for locking the door from inside, and ventilation openings to provide air to an occupant of the human containment chamber.

FIELD

The present invention relates to a system that is intended to prevent ahome owner from being harmed by unauthorized intruders.

BACKGROUND

For their personal security, home owners install intruder alarms. Thesealarms emit an audible warning should intruders force perimeter entry.For monitored alarms, a signal is also sent to a monitoring agencywhich, upon verifying that the alarm has not been accidentallytriggered, will dispatch security personnel or alert police.

SUMMARY

There is provided a home personal security system which includes a bedand an anchoring assembly by means of which the bed is anchored to afloor. A human containment chamber is provided in the lower portion ofthe bed. The human containment chamber has a door with a lock forlocking the door from inside, and ventilation openings to provide air toan occupant of the human containment chamber.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features will become more apparent from the followingdescription in which reference is made to the appended drawings, thedrawings are for the purpose of illustration only and are not intendedto in any way limit the scope of the invention to the particularembodiment or embodiments shown, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a end elevation view in section of a home personal securitysystem.

FIG. 2 is a partially transparent perspective view of a humancontainment chamber of the home personal security system of FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

A home personal security system generally identified by referencenumeral 10, will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

Structure and Relationship of Parts:

Referring to FIG. 1, home personal security system 10 includes a bed 12,an anchoring assembly 14 by means of which bed 12 is anchored to a floor161 and a human containment chamber 18 in a lower portion 20 of bed 12.Mattress 13 of bed 12 is held in place by a lip 19 around the outer edgeof human containment chamber 18. Referring to FIG. 2, human containmentchamber 18 has rounded corners. Referring to FIG. 1, chamber 18 has allfasteners 22 and hinges 25 required to maintain structural integritypositioned inside to discourage tampering. While human containmentchamber 18 may be formed at a factory, where the various components mayalso be joined by welding, the present design allows chamber 18 to bemore easily shipped and constructed by the user in the desired location.Chamber 18 is preferably made of a material light enough to transport,yet strong enough to withstand forces that may be applied to it by anintruder, such as a bullet from a gun, or a hammering force, such as upto 1000 lb of pressure. An example of such a material is an impactresistant fibreglass/Kevlar composite.

Human containment chamber 18 has a door 24 mounted on hinge 25 with alock 26 for locking door 24 from inside. Lock 26 is shown to be api-latching mechanism, however it will be understood that a variety oflock or latch designs may be used. For example, lock 26 may also be across-bar that secures door 24 at both the top and the bottom to provideadditional support to hinge 25. It is important to ensure that lock 26can only be opened and closed from the inside, to ensure that anythreatening person cannot gain access to chamber 18, and also to ensurethat door 24 will not lock on its own, preventing the user from gainingaccess when desired. Chamber 18B is equipped with reinforcing ribs 28,shown as a corrugated insert within the walls of chamber 18, tostrengthen chamber 18. While reinforcing ribs 28 are shown only on thetop and bottom, they may also be included in the sides. Referring toFIG. 2, chamber 18 also has ventilation openings 30 to provide air to anoccupant. To discourage tampering, the present design has the bottom 32of human containment chamber 18 elevated above floor 16 by anchoringassembly 14 and ventilation openings 30 are located on bottom 32, whichare then in communication with the outside environment by ventilationopenings 31. The placement and design of ventilation openings 30 mayvary according to the design and preferences of the user. In thedepicted example, ventilation openings are located toward the headboardend of bed 12, but could be along either end or side, or combinations ofsuch. Referring to FIG. 1, a communication link 34 is provided withinhuman containment chamber 18 to enable the occupant to signal an alarmmonitoring agency of an emergency situation, or to communicate with thealarm monitoring agency.

Operation:

Referring to FIG. 1, a user installs home personal security system 10 byfastening anchoring assembly 14 to the floor, and attaching the variousparts of human containment chamber 18 together by attaching fasteners 22and hinge 25 on the inside of chamber 18. Mattress 13 of bed 12 is thenplaced on top of chamber 18 such that lip 19 holds bed 12 in place. Onceconstructed, in the event of an emergency, such as an unauthorizedintruder, or when the user feels threatened by another person, the userpushes door 24 inward, which swings on hinge 25, and crawls through theopening created into chamber 18. Door 24 is then closed, and locked inplace by lock 26. The user may notify or communicate with an alarmmonitoring agency using communication link 34 to inform them of thesituation. Fresh air is obtained through ventilation openings 30 and 31.When not in use, home personal security system 10 is designed to formpart of the users bed, and may be covered by bedding and/or a bedskirtto hide its presence.

In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in itsnon-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included,but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to anelement by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibilitythat more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearlyrequires that there be one and only one of the elements.

It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications may bemade to the illustrated embodiments without departing from scope of theClaims.

1. A home personal security system, comprising: a bed; an anchoringassembly by means of which the bed is anchored to a floor; a humancontainment chamber in the lower portion of the bed, the humancontainment chamber having a door with a lock for locking the door frominside, and ventilation openings to provide air to an occupant of thehuman containment chamber.
 2. The home personal security system of claim1, wherein a communication link, to enable the occupant to signal analarm monitoring agency, is provided within the human containmentchamber.
 3. The home personal security system of claim 1, wherein abottom of the human containment chamber is elevated above the floor bythe anchoring assembly and the ventilation openings are located on abottom of the human containment chamber to discourage tampering.
 4. Thehome personal security system of claim 1, wherein the human containmentchamber has reinforcing ribs.
 5. The home personal security system ofclaim 1, wherein the human containment chamber has all fasteners andhinges required to maintain structural integrity positioned inside todiscourage tampering.